Terming the Narendra Modi regime at the centre as a "fascist power" that is destroying the country's economy and creating hatred among people by fueling communal unrest, a section of Bengal's civil society on Wednesday appealed to the people to make removal of the BJP and RSS from power as their topmost priority.
Labourer Ashok who was washed away in a stream around 8 days ago was not yet traced. As there was no clue about the youth, NDRF team has called off its search operation. Now, the local divers have continued their searching for the body.
A Special CBI Court here on Wednesday reserved its verdict for August 4 on the discharge pleas of two retired police officers D.G. Vanzara and N.K. Amin in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan shootout case even as her mother strongly opposed the plea.
Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader said that a meeting of higher officers of the Urban Development department and officers of the cities selected for the much ambitious Smart City Project of the central government was held here on Wednesday to give a boost to the development works.
Owners of the commercial goods lorries called for an indefinite strike from July 20 across the country demanding toll-free movement and reduction in insurance premium and bringing diesel under GST.
NITI Ayog Chairman Amitabh Kant on Thursday unveiled a startup incubation centre in this north Karnataka town to promote entrepreneurship in tier-2 and tier-3 cities.
Social activist Swami Agnivesh on Wednesday alleged that the brutal attack on him in Jharkhand was "pre-planned" and sought a judicial probe into it while a state Minister dubbed him a "fraud".
ACB sleuths conducted raids on the houses and offices of three government officers in the state on Tuesday and unearthed illegal assets disproportionate to their known sources of income worth crores and recovered the documents.
Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her successor Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday paid tributes to South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela on his birth centenary.
Transport Minister DC Thammanna said that he would shortly meet Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and discuss issuing free bus passes to schools and college students.
